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« on: June 19, 2010, 04:10:55 pm »
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  I found a piece of petrified wood in Stowe VT. Can anyone help with information on this find. e.g.  where to research New England petrified wood...

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« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2010, 05:45:08 pm »
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This might be a silly question but have you tried Google? Put quotation marks around "New England" like I did here and a plus sign in front. The plus sign forces all returns to have that two word term in it. Add the words petrified wood and you should get some worthwhile results.

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« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2010, 06:33:36 pm »
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Hey Bobby Welcome from Texas

There is not a lot of pet wood found or id-ed from Vt with out some pictures we can not help much. It may be coral are pieces of  Crinoids can you post some photos

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« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2010, 09:35:59 pm »
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Unless it washed down a river, it's unlikely that the piece is petrified wood.  Most of the Lamoille county is composed of Cambrian rocks which means no land plant fossils.  In fact most plant fossils in Vermont come from Rutland county, the Columbia Bridge area of Essex county, or the Dummerston area of Windham county.    What you do have in Vermont is an abundance of very early marine animal fossils (trilobytes, etc).   Plus the area around Stowe sounds good for gold.

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« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2010, 09:12:34 am »
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 I'm not at home this week, but when I return I will post a photo of the find. Thanks for helping me understand something about which I am a novice.
 I just happen to look at and actually pick up and take home interesting rocks I find during my travels.
 This piece of rock or stone that I found was in the fill that was brought into a site to bring the grade higher after a large concrete platform was built to support a communication tower located on the backside of a hill.
 The surrounding fill also contained some green colored slate chunks mixed in reddish gravel and miscellaneous other gravel.
 My rock - or my first impression upon seeing my rock - was, ' Wow, that looks like a piece of a rotted log '. It also has an abundance of shiny, shimering flecks. By the time I carried it over to my truck to stash my find, I became so impressed with the glitter that I lost track of my first thought (rotted log). My work partner saw my rock, and commented, 'That looks like a piece of petrified wood.'
 So, I'm eager to get an accurate appraisal of my 'gem'.   

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« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2010, 09:25:58 am »
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Hey Bobby it might be helpful if you can find out where the fill dirt came from.

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« Reply #6 on: August 27, 2010, 06:33:38 pm »
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Hey Seldom,
 I will attempt to post a couple of pictures (samples)...
forget it for now. The files are too ,arge.
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If yes - whaddaya think?

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« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2010, 10:26:53 pm »
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Yup that sure looks like petrified wood to me. A friend of mine recently excavated out a truck-load's worth when constructing a new road.

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Yeah you got petwood nice size pieces also.

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« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2010, 04:14:54 am »
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Just out of curiosity, can anyone guesstimate the wholesale price for approx 5.5 metric tonnes (12,125.42 pounds) of petrified wood?

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